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   by ssn 17y ago

   No sample/preview chapter?
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   by ssn 17y ago

   Look at the bright side of this: GMail just got more reliable.
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   by ssn 17y ago

   Is it like FriendFeed? What differs?
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   by ssn 17y ago

   Interesting overview, however he fails to address scalability issues properly. Some of the algorithms presented need to periodically recompute each item's score - this is a drawback if scalability is what you are looking for. A scalable alg
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   by ssn 17y ago

   Let's see if you can spend a day without visiting HN... :->
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   by ssn 17y ago

   Maybe http://yuml.me will help you.
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   by ssn 17y ago

   Also worth seeing: http://yuml.me
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   Create and share diagrams by writing sentences(diagrammr.com)

   79 points by ssn 17y ago|35 comments
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   by ssn 17y ago

   Previous submission here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782985
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    by ssn 17y ago

    Also interesting, posts faved by _why: http://favstar.fm/users/_why/faved_by
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    Myths About Sleep(webmd.com)

    45 points by ssn 17y ago|8 comments
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    by ssn 17y ago

    This is true specially for long-tailed distributions.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://whytheluckystiff.net/
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    by ssn 17y ago

    Try http://rseek.org - a Google custom search engine for R materials.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    I can only confirm that R has a great community of savy-users ready to help. See the r-help mailing list.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    See http://kevinchai.net/datasets/
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    by ssn 17y ago

    Unfortunately Google Checkout is still USA & UK only. Edited: exactly those countries with more offers in this area.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    More info here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408
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    by ssn 17y ago

    I thought it was self-explanatory. I revised my comment to provide context.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    I refuse to follow links to techcrunch.com (see 'ethics') Added: techcrunch is making profit from a crime of privacy violation. this should be simply condemned. nothing else.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    Hey.. we are hackers, were are the technical details? Language, hosting, APIs, architecture... PS: Thanks for sharing.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    I do not agree with the thesis stated that "software engineering is slippery because humans are unpredictable". Maybe it is harder because it deals with humans, but good and solid research is possible, just look at areas like information re
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    Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science(ddj.com)

    19 points by ssn 17y ago|19 comments
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    by ssn 17y ago

    Simply beautiful.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    This is a terrible chart of visualization techniques. Please see "Visualization is not Periodic, Period!" http://eagereyes.org/blog/2009/visualization-is-not-periodic...
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    Jakob Nielsen's hardware setup(jakob.nielsen.usesthis.com)

    1 points by ssn 17y ago|0 comments
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    by ssn 17y ago

    If you look at Google's top products, most of them come from startups they bought: YouTube, Blogger, Docs, Maps, Earth... I can only think of GMail and Reader as products that were originally developed inside.
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    by ssn 17y ago

    Just posted online: http://videolectures.net/cikm08_blank_tshosv/
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    by ssn 18y ago

    robots.txt won't work?
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    by ssn 18y ago

    Great to hear that you also plan to release the trending information. For the URL->twi.bz mapping I would opt for a simple text file with a mapping per line.